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The Shortest History of Germany
What you need to know before your trail
The West is in full retreat. The Anglo-Saxon powers, great and small, withdraw into fantasies of lost greatness. Populists all over Europe cry out that immigration and globalisation are the work of a nefarious System, run by unseen masters with no national loyalties. From the Kremlin, Tsar Vladimir watches his Great Game line up, while the Baltic and Vizegrad states shiver — and everyone looks to Berlin. But are the Germans really us, or them? This question has haunted Europe ever since Julius Caesar invented the Germani in 58 BC.
How Roman did Germania ever become? Did the Germans destroy the culture of Rome, or inherit it?
Travel Guide
Germany
One of the maps from the book
How did Germany become the country it is today?
This book follows Germany’s place as a continuum of the Holy Roman Empire. On one side it’s a European nation, on the other, it’s been controlled and manipulated by other nations.
Just what and who is this nation we see today? Told via maps and diagrams, this is a neat account of history.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Shortest History of Germany
Destination: Germany Author/Guide: James Hawes Departure Time: Various
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